Lost all my games again!

Oh my God! Today I wanted to an old PS2 soccer game Winning Eleven 6 and my PS3 started freezing and I turned it off. After powering it on again. All of the sudden it stopped reading discs and I called Sony talked to a lady and she helped me to solve the problem by resetting the settings. The great news was the system have asked me to reformat the HDD and again I lost all my games. I have to redownload around 500GB of stuff again. Tomorrow I will buy a super slim PS3 and get over with this headache. This is the 3 time this has happened to me and I hope no one will ever experience this.

One of the reasons I stopped purchasing Digital downloads was the ridiculous amount of time I'd have to spend redownloading games when my system yellow lighted. I dont even have close to 500 GBs of data and it still took me a week and a half because the download list is such a badly designed process. It should be reformatted to separate out demos, Music and DLC from games so you can find things easier. The current store model seemed like it might fix the problem at first but it's too slow and also stupidly designed in a way that discourages multiple downloads. I swear someone in their online service department really needs a punch in the anus.

They KNOW systems die, if you have to set up a department to handle repair and refurbishing you should know people are going to have to redownload content, why not make it less of a headache? I don't see why they're so dead set on screwing people over a hardware failure that isn't the user's fault.

Do you really need to download all of it though? I mean, surely, you can't play 500 GB of games at the same time?

Sometimes when I get bored or not in the mood. I go back to play an old games or my friends will ask to help them with few games.

Originally Posted by Gantz

Meanwhile my launch day sega saturn is still going strong
That is great to hear friend.
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Originally Posted by admartian

$#@! that sucks.

Keeping DD for the Vita only (where prices permit) but man that is a tough pill to swallow. Good luck from here on out.

Thanks friend and I just bought a super slim PS3 and I will use it for recording and download my stuff on it. My slim PS3 is connected via HDMI and I play on it and its for personal use. My phat one I will keep it to remember the black PS3 days.

Originally Posted by Acid Snake

Don't download everything at once. Get it as you need it.

I will do that and Just I will start downloading few starting from download number item 1588 to 1.

That sucks man. Digital Download saw the last of me when my 80GB MGS bundle PS3 went YLOD on me. The Sony rep said they would do me a "One-time" favor of allowing me to download a movie I purchased years ago. Pause... you're giving me a freebie on something I paid for? lol, child please.

That sucks man. Digital Download saw the last of me when my 80GB MGS bundle PS3 went YLOD on me. The Sony rep said they would do me a "One-time" favor of allowing me to download a movie I purchased years ago. Pause... you're giving me a freebie on something I paid for? lol, child please.

And that is the big $#@! you! moment for me with DD. It's just the license you're paying for. While technically legally it's the same thing now. At least I got my disc to do what the $#@! I want with it! Lol

Oh my God! Today I wanted to an old PS2 soccer game Winning Eleven 6 and my PS3 started freezing and I turned it off. After powering it on again. All of the sudden it stopped reading discs and I called Sony talked to a lady and she helped me to solve the problem by resetting the settings. The great news was the system have asked me to reformat the HDD and again I lost all my games. I have to redownload around 500GB of stuff again. Tomorrow I will buy a super slim PS3 and get over with this headache. This is the 3 time this has happened to me and I hope no one will ever experience this.

I am so sorry to hear that, god how frustrating >< I don't blame you for wanting to just get rid of that thing all together. I have a slim myself, a 500GB, and have had no problems with it whatsoever

You are 29 years old and you collect games online??Is strange.I collect games with their boxes so the only danger that I have is from real thieves :P or earthquakes etc.I cannot feel you,but I know is something very bad when it happens to someone.